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That would be Indian
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Not Indian
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I Spent the past week scouring the interwebs to try and find out about this 26" Roadster. When I found NOTHING I decided that I must have the only one in existence. The bikes that I found that were closest were from India. I decided to give up on what this bike is and where it is from and focus on what it is going to be and where I am going to take it.

Here it is when I brought it home.
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Rod actuated brakes front and rear. The front is the stirrup type.
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And the rear is a hub/band brake
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Some of the cool features the bike is giving me include
-Cool drop stand
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-Stainless steel fenders with a cool ornament
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-Westwood style Ayara rims. The chrome is great under the overspray.
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-and The sweet full coverage chain guard. I'm talking front and back coverage.
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The bike has been torn down and is ready to begin the process of cleaning and prepping for paint.

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My vision as of now includes cleaning and polishing the fenders and rims, painting the chrome parts that are too far gone to save the chrome (unless I can swing a chroming deal) and painting the frame and forks.

I am seeing metal flake blue on the frame and forks and satin black on the chrome stuff. And a lot of pinstripping. Either all by one artist or perhaps hitting up our talented stripper members and having several of them attack the parts with their own style.
 
Re: The Screamin' Indian

Great build man!
I love this rod break bikes, I´ve done a few my self.
I´ll try to find a pic I know I have somewhere with an Indian (from India :D ) taxi bike and post it.
Keep up the good work! :wink:
 
Re: The Screamin' Indian

Something(s) about your bike scream 'Japanese!'; maybe the fonts used on the metal parts and body, and that chainguard.
I watch an awful lot of Anime and they're full of bikes like that. That is a very cool bike...

Bill
 
Re: The Screamin' Indian

Looks like the one I stretched and gave to Clancy. Its looking good , and when your use to big cruiser tires
and you ride something with small ones , they are so fast.
 
Re: The Screamin' Indian

SSG said:
Great job, the truss frame works well with that frame. Check out the soma Major Taylor bars.
I went and looked at them earlier. Those would work great, I am just too cheap to spring for them yet.

Thanks for the compliments, fellas.
 
Re: The Screamin' Indian

in the meantime you could hook up a brake and have a sweet gravity racer :mrgreen:
 

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